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Letter: A shameful failure in leadership

Donald Trump is so morally bankrupt that he couldn’t bring himself to specifically condemn white supremacists, the KKK and neo-Nazis following the horrific domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville.

Letter: A shameful failure in leadership

Donald Trump is so morally bankrupt that he couldn’t bring himself to specifically condemn white supremacists, the KKK and neo-Nazis following the horrific domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Yet he was outraged enough to tweet a personal attack against the head of Merck Pharmaceuticals who resigned from the president’s American Manufacturing Council because of Trump’s failure to call out the alt-right hate groups.

Trump’s lame denunciation of violence on “many sides, many sides” is false equivalency — akin to declaring that Jews did terrible things to German soldiers during the Holocaust. Trump’s refusal to criticize these bigots shows he cares less about upholding the American ideal of equality and more about protecting those who are still willing to prop up the base of his crumbling support.